Rage against machines

Re “California sees a surge in mail-in voting,” Oct. 27

Nowhere in the article on early voting do you mention that many of us vote by mail because -- after the last two elections -- we don’t trust voting machines. For many years, I enjoyed using our garage as a polling place. Then, it apparently was decided that the machines wouldn’t fit there, so the polling place was moved to a nearby church.

It wasn’t the general public that decided to abandon the lovely ritual of voting in neighborhood garages. It was the voting machines that changed all that.

Joanne Tatham

Irvine